Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Markets in Everything: Online Jury Trials

"The website eJury provides an attorney the opportunity to "pre-try" the case before it goes to trial in front of an actual jury at the courthouse. Cases at the courthouse are usually tried to juries of 12 people. At eJury, each case is tried to a minimum of 50 people. This provides the attorney with a tremendous amount of feedback which he/she will use to establish a settlement value, find strengths and weaknesses in the evidence, learn "public" attitudes, improve jury selection, discover the most effective arguments."

Qualified eJurors get paid $5-10 depending on the size of the case, here's a sample case that paid $10. Attorneys pay $350 per page, with a 2-page minimum and a suggested 5-page maximum, and usually get a minimum of 50 verdicts.